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Houses and Arrows

It's Sunday! Which means I upload a free pattern to my QAL website. This week I uploaded two because I'll be out of town next weekend.

Both these blocks were designed in 2014 my first year of pattern designing and have only had a few minor block size edits since then. I still love them and think they make great blocks for either a one block quilt or a sampler quilt.

There's a link to the QAL website under the 2017/8 BOW tab towards the top of this blog.

I have made my dogs some dog jackets lately and was asked for the pattern, since all dogs are different sizes that is difficult to do, but I am going to do a tutorial showing how I did it.

This is the pattern for my medium sized dog Henry the Cockapoo, I have laid it on my cutting mat folded in half and lined up with the inch marks so that you can copy the pattern onto a grid if you would like to try this:

And this is the pattern for my small Maltipoo Ebony again it is folded in half and lined up on the inch grid so you can copy it if you would like to:

Once you have created a paper pattern you can lay it over your dog to determine if you need to enlarge the pattern or decrease the size to suit your own dog.
Then you need a piece of fabric and some batting. Any scrappy patchwork or UFO you no longer want will do fine for this or you can take the time to create a patchwork design that suits your dogs personality. Spray baste the top to the battingLay the pattern on top and cut out the p…